  Alan Jackson was born on October
17, 1958 in Georgia. After taking work as a
car salesman and a construction worker,
Jackson found bigger success with country
singing. Hit start came when his wife gave Glen
Campbell a tape of Jackson which
eventually led to Jackson moving to Nashville
and signing with Arista Nashville in 1989.
Jackson's rise to stardom has included over
40 million LPs sold and 30 #1 hits on the
country charts.
 Jackson released Here
In The Real World.
Here
In The Real World was certified gold.
Jackson was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Country New Artist.
Here
In The Real World was certified
platinum.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 2 weeks with
"I'd Love You All Over Again."
 Jackson released Don't
Rock The Jukebox.
Don't
Rock The Jukebox was certified gold.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 3 weeks with
"Don't Rock The Jukebox."
Don't
Rock The Jukebox was certified
platinum.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for a week with
"Someday."
Jackson was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Album (Don't
Rock The Jukebox).
Jackson was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male (Don't
Rock The Jukebox) and Best Country Song ("Don't Rock The
Jukebox" with Roger Murrah and Keith
Stegall).
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for a week with
"Dallas."
Don't
Rock The Jukebox was certified 2x
platinum.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 2 weeks with
"Love's Got A Hold On You."
 Jackson released A
Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) .
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for a week with
"She's Got The Rhythm (And Don't Know
Why)."
A
Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) was certified
platinum.
At the Country Music Association
Awards, Jackson won for Music Video of the
Year ("Midnight In Montgomery").
Jackson was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 4 weeks with
"Chattahoochee."
A
Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) was certified 2x
platinum.
A
Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) topped the Billboard
Top Country Albums chart for 5 weeks.
 Jackson released Honky
Tonk Christmas.
The single
"Chattachoochee" was certified
gold.
A
Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) was certified 3x
platinum.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts with the Top Country
Single & Track
("Chattachoochee").
At the Country Music Association
Awards, Jackson won for Single of the Year
and Music Video of the Year
("Chattahoochee"), and Vocal Event
of the Year ("I Don't Need Your Rocking
Chair").
Honky
Tonk Christmas was certified gold.
Jackson won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Country Single
("Chattahoochee") and Favorite
Country Album (A
Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love)), and was nominated
for Favorite Country Male Artist.
Jackson was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Chattachoochee")
and Best Country Song
("Chattahoochee" co-written with
Jim McBride).
 Jackson released Who
I Am.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 3 weeks with
"Summertime Blues."
Who
I Am topped the Billboard Country
Albums chart for a week.
Here
In The Real World was certified 2x
platinum and Who
I Am was certified platinum.
A
Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) was certified 4x
platinum.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 3 weeks with
"Livin' On Love."
Don't
Rock The Jukebox was certified 3x
platinum.
At the Country Music Association
Awards, Jackson won for Song of the Year
("Chattahoochee").
Jackson was
nominated for 2 American Music
Awards including
Favorite Country Male Artist and Favorite
Country Album (Who
I Am).
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for a week with
"Gone Country."
Who
I Am was certified 2x platinum.
Don't
Rock The Jukebox was certified 4x
platinum and A
Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) was certified 5x
platinum.
Who
I Am was certified 3x platinum.
A
Lot About Livin' (And A Little 'Bout Love) was certified 6x
platinum.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for a week with "I
Don't Even Know Your Name."
 Jackson released The
Greatest Hits Collection.
The
Greatest Hits Collection topped the Billboard
Country Albums chart for 4 weeks.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 2 weeks with
"Tall, Tall Trees."
At the Country Music Association
Awards, Jackson won for Entertainer of the
Year.
The
Greatest Hits Collection was certified 2x
platinum.
Jackson was nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite
Country Male Artist.
Jackson was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Gone Country") and
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
("A Good Year For The Roses" with George
Jones).
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for a week with
"I'll Try."
The
Greatest Hits Collection was certified 3x
platinum.
 Jackson released Everything
I Love.
Everything
I Love topped the Billboard Country
Albums chart for 3 weeks.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles & Tracks chart for 7
weeks with "Little Bitty."
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 3 weeks with
"Little Bitty."
 Jackson was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite
Country Male Artist.
Everything
I Love was certified platinum.
Jackson was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country
Collaboration with Vocals ("Redneck
Games" with Jeff Foxworth).
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for a week with
"There Goes."
Jackson topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Country
Artist - Male (singles & albums), Top Hot
Country Singles & Tracks Artist, and Top
Hot Country Singles & Tracks Artists -
Male.
Honky
Tonk Christmas was certified platinum and Everything
I Love was certified 2x platinum.
Jackson was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite
Country Male Artist.
Jackson was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Album (Everything
I Love).
The
Greatest Hits Collection was certified 4x
platinum.
Jackson released High
Mileage.
High
Mileage topped the Billboard Country
Albums chart for 2 weeks.
 High
Mileage was certified platinum.
 # 127
Singles Artist of the Year
Who
I Am was certified 4x platinum.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for a week with
"Right On The Money."
 Jackson released Under
The Influence.
Under
The Influence was certified platinum.
 # 124
Singles Artist of the Year
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for a week with
"It Must Be Love."
At the Country Music Association
Awards, Jackson won for Vocal Event of the
Year ("Murder On Music Row" with George
Strait).
 Jackson released When
Somebody Loves You.
When
Somebody Loves You topped the Billboard
Country Albums chart for 2 weeks.
 # 155
Singles Artist of the Year
Jackson was
nominated for 2 American Music
Awards including
Favorite Country Male Artist and Favorite
Country Album (Under
The Influence).
Jackson was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards including Best Country
Collaboration with Vocals ("Murder On
Music Row" with George Strait)
and Best Country Album (Under
The Influence).
When
Somebody Loves You was certified gold.
Everything
I Love was certified 3x platinum and When
Somebody Loves You was certified
platinum.
The
Greatest Hits Collection was certified 5x
platinum.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 3 weeks with
"Where I Come From."
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 5 weeks with "Where Were You (When
The World Stopped Turning)."
 # 100
Singles Artist of the Year
 Jackson
released Drive.
Jackson hit the
Top 40 with "Where Were You (When
The World Stopped Turning)."
Drive topped the
Billboard 200 Albums chart for 4 weeks, the
Internet Album Sales chart for a week, and
the Country Albums chart for 6 weeks.
Drive was certified
2x platinum.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart for 4 weeks with
"Drive (For Daddy Gene)."
Drive was certified
3x platinum.
 At the Country Music Association
Awards, Jackson won for Entertainer of the
Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Single of
the Year and Song of the Year (Where Were You (When
The World Stopped Turning)), and Album of the
Year (Drive).
Jackson
released Let
It Be Christmas.
Jackson topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Country
Artist (singles & albums), Top Country
Artist - Male (singles & albums), Top
Country Album Artist, and Top Country Album
Artist - Male.
 # 160
Singles Artist of the Year
Let
It Be Christmas was certified gold.
Jackson was
nominated for 2 American Music
Awards including
Favorite Country Male Artist and Favorite
Country Album (Drive).
Jackson won his
first Grammy Award for Best Country Song
("Where Were You (When
The World Stopped Turning)"), and was
nominated for Song of the Year, Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Where Were You (When
The World Stopped Turning)"), and Best Country Album (Drive).
Drive was certified
4x platinum.
 Jackson got his 30th #1 song on
the Billboard Country Singles chart with
"It's Five O'clock Somewhere" - a
duet with Jimmy Buffett
which topped the chart for 8 weeks.
Jackson released Greatest
Hits Volume II And Some Other Stuff.
Greatest
Hits Volume II And Some Other Stuff topped the Billboard
200 LP chart for a week, Internet Albums
chart for a week, and Top Country LP chart
for 11 weeks. The LP sold over 328,000 copies
in the US its first week of release.
Jackson was nominated for a
Country Music Association Award for Vocal
Event of the Year ("It's Five O'clock
Somewhere" with Jimmy Buffett).
Greatest
Hits Volume II And Some Other Stuff was certified
platinum.
Jackson could be heard on the
holiday compilation A
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